Workers' Compensation News

Forty-five days may be a standard time frame in many legal proceedings in Texas and around the country. But for injured workers who don’t yet have a lawyer but want to take their claim to court, a month and a half is simply not enough time, the Texas Office of Injured Employee Counsel says ...Read More

A Texas appellate court ruled that the attorneys who had represented the widow of a worker who was killed in a plane crash had not entered into an enforceable fee-sharing agreement, and that one of the attorneys could pursue a tortious interference with contract claim against the other.
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Sunz Insurance Solutions announced plans to use two products from Cimarron Insurance Co. to provide workers’ compensation insurance for policyholders who have professional employer organization clients that don’t qualify for coverage under the master policy.
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The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that a public school employee could not demand additional benefits under the terms of the settlement she had entered for her injuries from a workplace accident.
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A husband and wife team of insurance agents has been charged with defrauding clients who paid for workers' compensation coverage but were never actually covered, the Georgia Board of Workers' Compensation announced.
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A New York firefighter has been arrested for alleged workers' comp fraud on both ends: He was found to be working while collecting benefits, and he failed to provide comp insurance for his own company's employees, authorities said.
Raphael Ziegler, 41, of Monsey, New York, a volunteer firefighter and former fire inspector, is charged with ...
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The appointment of two new Supreme Court justices and a third to come has given new hope to insurers and employers that Florida lawmakers will revisit the idea of limits on attorney fees in workers' compensation cases.
Newly elected Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed the justices this week after three former Supreme Court judges h...
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